Some positive new on the test for an HIV vaccine as a human trial in Thailand shows that a new vaccine is partially effective at stopping infection. It’s not good enough to actually use, but it demonstrates that a vaccine can be made to work in principle and should give researchers some signposts in the direction of how to move further forward.

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